Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

The hardest part about our transient, shallow world wide web is the terrifying swiftness in which data disappears. To this end, Archive Team members have often bravely strapped on miner's helmets and flashlights, dove into the flaming wreckage of a dying site, and grabbed a copy for all of time. Some of these rescues, consisting of what we could grab, are being saved here.

Please Note: Some of these items were not burning as brightly or recently as others - they might be merely considered "off-site backups" of sites or collections, but in most cases the original data is now gone.

Elvis is back in the building - 27 years after he died

Elvis Presley is back at the top of the UK singles chart with his 19th British number one, with the promise of more chart-toppers to come.

The King of Rock'n'Roll knocked Steve Brookstein off the number one spot with the re-release of Jailhouse Rock, which topped the US and UK charts for the first time in 1958.

It is the 999th number one since the singles chart was launched in 1952 and the chart entry came a day after what would have been the King's 70th birthday.

His record label SonyBMG are re-releasing each of his 18 number ones to mark the birthday

celebrations in what they describe as "the most ambitious singles release campaign in the history of the UK record industry".

Elvis is still in with a good chance of scoring the 1000th number one - next week sees the re-release of his single One Night, followed the week after by A Fool Such As I.

Elvis died on August 16 1977 but remains one of the world's best-selling artists.

He last topped the chart in June 2002 with A Little Less Conversation, which became a hit after it was featured in a Nike TV advert.

X-Factor winner Brookstein's debut single, Against All Odds, slipped to second place in its third week in the charts.

There were new entries for Iron Maiden, with The Number of The Beast in at number three, and Erasure who came straight in at number four with Breathe.

The Scissor Sisters also went straight into the top ten with Filthy/Gorgeous at number five.

Band Aid 20 slipped to six after seven weeks in the chart for the Christmas number one, Do They Know It's Christmas.

There were two more new entries for Dana Rayne with Object of My Desire in at seven and Kasabian whose single, Cut Off, came in at number eight.

Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day and Out of Touch by Uniting Nations both slipped three places, to ninth and tenth place respectively.

In the album charts, the Scissor Sisters climb up to the number one spot with the Scissor Sisters, the Killers' album Hot Fuss moves up from five to two and Green Day's American Idiot slips from number one to third place.